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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
cause of education. 1700: Neal says, Hardly a child of nine or ten years old, throughout the whole country, but can read and write, and say his catechism. Nov. 30, 1719, a special meeting was held, to see if a school shall be established for four months. Voted in the affirmative. Also voted that the town will allow Mr. Davison three pounds money for keeping the school the time above said, and also to diet him for the town. Heretofore, schools had been kept in private houses; but, Feb. 22, 1720, it was voted to build a schoolhouse. Dec. 12, 1720: Two schools proposed and organized for the first time; one for the west end, and the other for the east. Mr. Caleb Brooks was engaged to keep the west school for three months, at two pounds per month; Mr. Henry Davison the east, at the same price. In these ways, primary instruction was provided for. Although, in their votes, they used the word established, it could not be strictly true; for there was no school established, as we
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., chapter 1 (search)
aster for three months, and the town voted to pay him £ 3 and his board. Whether Mr. Davison was to board round or not the vote does not specify. The money was to be raised by levy on the inhabitants, provided it was not furnished by voluntary subscription. A committee of six men was chosen to find out whether Mr. Davison would accept the town's offer, and Thomas Tufts and Ebenezer Brooks were chosen to collect the above subscription in case it could be collected. At a meeting held Feb. 22, 1720, the town voted to choose a committee of five men to select a site for a school-house to accommodate the whole town, and to report at the next meeting in March. This committee consisted of Capt. Peter Tufts, Dea. John Whitmore, Capt. Ebenezer Brooks, Mr. John Willis, and Mr. John Richardson, but no report of their doings appears on the records of the town. The minds of the people seem to have been suddenly turned to the subject of erecting a new meeting-house, and the school-house mus
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
aunched, the people began to agitate the school-house question. Brooks in his History of Medford says: Heretofore schools had been kept in private houses, but Feb. 22, 1720, it was voted to build a school house, and also where the first school-house stood is not known, but it was probably near the meeting-house at the West End. Bory glance to show their incorrectness. The first school, in the house of Thomas Willis, Jr., was not opened till after Dec. 11, 1719, and at the townmeet-ing Feb. 22, 1720, had kept only about one-half of its first term, but the inhabitants were sufficiently impressed with its importance to call a town meeting for Feb. 22, 1720, Feb. 22, 1720, to know ye minde of ye Town whether ye will state a place for a school house and also to know whether the Town will build a new scholl house. Att said meeting put to vote whether ye Town will choose a committee of five men to consider of a convenient place for setting of a schoolhouse in said town which may best acomodate ye whole
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Volume II of Medford records. (search)
ool. This was the first public school kept in Medford. In 1647 the General Court had passed an act making it obligatory on towns of fifty families to keep reading and writing schools and towns of one hundred families to have grammar schools. Evidently Medford had not reached the size demanded by the first requirement until this period. Prior to this time the children obtained what education they received in the neighboring towns where schools existed, or were taught privately. On February 22, 1720, a vote was passed to appoint a committee to choose a convenient place for setting a schoolhouse to best accommodate the whole town and report at the March meeting. This committee was appointed, but there is no record of any report from it. The next reference to a school-house is at the meeting of October 5, 1730, when it was again voted to appoint a committee to select a location and report the proper dimensions. On October 19th the committee reported That it would be Proper for